US, Britain, Libya End Lockerbie World Court Row

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US, Britain, Libya End Lockerbie World Court Row

The United States, Britain and Libya have formally ended a dispute at the World Court over the 1988 Lockerbie airliner bombing, after more than a decade of legal wrangling.

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The United States, Britain and Libya have formally ended a dispute at the World Court over the 1988 Lockerbie airliner bombing, after more than a decade of legal wrangling.

They agreed to end the row days before an expected vote by the UN Security Council to lift sanctions imposed on Libya over the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, after victims' families agreed to a compensation deal with Tripoli.

The decision by the United States, Britain and Libya to halt their battle at the United Nations' highest court, also known as the International Court of Justice, ends a legally complex dispute which rumbled on for years in The Hague.

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